RoR, good for a beginner?

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Hi every body! I'm a French new user of RoR (thus, sorry for my english :slight_smile: ) and I would like to know something.

I only made some simple web site with PHP, and I started RoR. I'm pretty lost, and I don't really know if everything can be made with RoR, like a real e-commerce platform, mostly for a newbie who start from 0. (or a more powerful web application). What should be the point of departure to learn to do it. I saw some books for beginner, but they seems limited, and I don't know wich i have to buy. What could you advise me, and how many time do I need to be able to make e-commerce by myself.

Thanks a lot, and again, sorry for my english :wink:

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Hi

    I suggest for Ruby

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

For rails

Agile Web Development with Rails (latest edition I think 3)

And also check

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://api.rubyonrails.org/

Sijo

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Hi

I suggest for Ruby

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

For rails

Agile Web Development with Rails (latest edition I think 3)

And also check

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

or the following link being that you’re native French speaker:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/fr/

http://api.rubyonrails.org/

Sijo

In addition to the above two links, I would recommend the following

resource for Rails:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org

This is usually in sync with the latest stable release of Rails. Last

but not least, Ryan Bates screencasts are the best and can be viewed

here:

http://railscasts.com

On last word of advice, please do not try to learn everything in a day.

Just take your time to understand the concepts.

Good luck,

-Conrad